Guayaquil, Ecuador: Prison prisoners from rival gangs in Ecuador fights each other with weapons, explosives and knives in the remaining bloodshed of at least 68 dead in the same prison where riots in September claimed 119 lives, said officials on Saturday.
After the government said it had regained control of prison in Guayaquil, President Guillermo Lasso’s spokesman said the inmates from the rival gang were bound to the drug trading ring fighting with a surge in new violence.
In the initial riots that began on Friday night detainees were fighting for “Savagery,” said Pablo Arosemena, Governor of the Province of Guayas the prison spot.
The riots began at around 7:00 p.m.
(0001 GMT) when the detainees tried to enter the 2-prison block where their rivals were held, firing shots, blowing up explosives and swinging machets, and pushing the police to move.
At least 68 prisoners were killed and 25 others were injured, according to a statement where the Ecuador Prosecutor’s Office was posted on Twitter.
In a new outbreak of the battle, inmates from two other blocks attacked each other, President Carlos Jijon’s spokesman.
Lasso has appealed to civil society groups to try to establish contact with detainees and ended bloodshed, said Jijon, officials said the violence began when one of the gangs in prison, Tiguerones, was left without their leader because he was released after serving part of his sentence because Steal auto parts.
Another group, felt the weakness in Tiguerones with the man left, continued the attack to try to destroy the gang, said Arosemena.
He said their goal was “to enter and carry out total massacre.” Earlier on Saturday, police officers in riot equipment were seen climbing blood-stained prison walls, while the body of a prisoner at the Jumpsuit of the orange prison lay on a prison roof surrounded by barbed wire.
Images posted on social networks, whose authenticity has not been confirmed by the authorities, shows a pile of bodies at the courtyard of the night prison consumed by fire while inmates stand nearby with a stick.
In other videos, a prisoner from the block being attacked said, “We were locked in our pavilion.
They want to kill us all.” “Please share this video.
Please help us!” Prisoners begged, because repeated bangs sounded background.
Dozens of people gathered outside the prison gate Saturday morning, fainted or cried when they tried to study the fate of the people they loved inside.
“They are humans, help them”, read a banner held by one of the families, being held by the spread of the police and soldiers supported by a tank.
A group of women with one cellphone shouted the names of prisoners to an inmate in prison and on the phone, hoping to find out whether the people were still alive.
“Here there are relatives from Block Two and they need to know about a boy,” said the woman who held the phone.
The cracking sound was heard from the phone but his signal was spotty and then there was only silence.
In the coronary office in the city, Felix Gonzalez appeared holding his son’s ID carded and asked whether his body was there.
“It’s unfair for him to die because of stealing a cellphone,” said Gonzalez told AFP.
More than 300 prisoners have been killed this year in the Ecuador Criminal Detention System, where thousands of prisoners are bound to the narcotics gang squares in clashes of violence that often turn into riots.
The September riot was one of the worst massacre of prison in Latin American history, and the latest deadly violence in Guayaquil only reaffirmed the damaged ecuadoric addict.
Narkah rival gangs have carried out a bloody feud in Guayas 1 prison in Guayaquil, a facility designed for 5,300 inmates, but the house is 8,500.
But even after the hard action after the September 28 tragedy which killed 119, the riots had survived, with at least 15 more dying prisoners before the deadly explosion of violence on Friday.
Two weeks after the September disaster, President Guillermo Lasso expressed an emergency of 60 days in an effort to tame the drug-related riots that surged Ecuador.
Violence has been spiny dramatically in the past few months in Ecuador, where the economy is sick.
Between January and October this year, the country registered nearly 1,900 murders, compared with around 1,400 in 2020, according to the government.
New prison riots in Ecuador left 68 dead
